German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration

Zeiss Group has ditched plans for a greenfield ERP migration to latest S/4HANA platform from SAP following years of struggle trying to move off an ageing R/3 system. The industrial optics company with revenue of around €11.896 billion said it was seeking to “realign” its ERP migration plans by moving its existing landscape to the new platform, a so-called "brownfield” migration. SAP has long recommended that customers move to S/4HANA — a completely re-engineered version of its popular ERP system